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Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion / Jane Ellen Harrison.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology : 57 ; 664Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (720 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691227467
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 292.08 23
LOC classification:
  • BL785 .H377 1991
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. OLYMPIAN AND CHTHONIC RITUAL -- CHAPTER IT. THE ANTHESTERIA. THE RITUAL OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS -- CHAPTER III. HARVEST FESTIVALS. THE THARGELIA, KALLYNTERIA, PLYNTERIA -- CHAPTER IV. THE WOMEN'S FESTIVALS. THESMOPHORIA, ARIIEPHORIA, SKIROPHORIA, STENIA, HALOA -- CHAPTER V. THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS -- CHAPTER VI. THE MAKING OF A GODDESS -- CHAPTER VII. THE MAKING OF A GOD -- CHAPTER VIII. DIONYSOS -- CHAPTER IX. ORPHEUS -- CHAPTER X. ORPHIC MYSTERIES -- CHAPTER XI. ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY -- CHAPTER XII. OEPHIC COSMOGONY -- CRITICAL APPENDIX ON THE ORPHIC TABLETS -- INDEX OF CLASSICAL PASSAGES -- INDEX
Summary: Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, best developed and most clearly put in the Prolegomena, have never been eclipsed.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. OLYMPIAN AND CHTHONIC RITUAL -- CHAPTER IT. THE ANTHESTERIA. THE RITUAL OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS -- CHAPTER III. HARVEST FESTIVALS. THE THARGELIA, KALLYNTERIA, PLYNTERIA -- CHAPTER IV. THE WOMEN'S FESTIVALS. THESMOPHORIA, ARIIEPHORIA, SKIROPHORIA, STENIA, HALOA -- CHAPTER V. THE DEMONOLOGY OF GHOSTS AND SPRITES AND BOGEYS -- CHAPTER VI. THE MAKING OF A GODDESS -- CHAPTER VII. THE MAKING OF A GOD -- CHAPTER VIII. DIONYSOS -- CHAPTER IX. ORPHEUS -- CHAPTER X. ORPHIC MYSTERIES -- CHAPTER XI. ORPHIC ESCHATOLOGY -- CHAPTER XII. OEPHIC COSMOGONY -- CRITICAL APPENDIX ON THE ORPHIC TABLETS -- INDEX OF CLASSICAL PASSAGES -- INDEX

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Jane Harrison examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive "substratum" of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature. In Harrison's preface to this remarkable book, she writes that J. G. Frazer's work had become part and parcel of her "mental furniture" and that of others studying primitive religion. Today, those who write on ancient myth or ritual are bound to say the same about Harrison. Her essential ideas, best developed and most clearly put in the Prolegomena, have never been eclipsed.

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